Justin Timberlake is suing to block the release of police body camera footage from his drunken driving arrest in New York’s Hamptons in 2024.
Nurses on strike at two major New York City hospital systems have approved new contracts, but ones striking at another system have rejected a proposal to bring an end to the monthlong walkout.
A young cancer patient at one of the remaining New York City hospitals where nurses are on strike says he misses his regular caregivers.
Many U.S. residents are facing another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a massive winter storm dumped more snow in Northeast and left parts of the South coated in ice.
New York City nurses on strike are set to resume negotiations with hospital administrators to try to bring an end to a walkout that’s in its fourth day.
Federal prison officials say the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is fit to stand trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
Zohran Mamdani’s winning run for New York City mayor featured a memorable campaign design that drew its inspiration from a wide range of influences, helping the democratic socialist appeal to young and diverse voters.
Polling places open Saturday for in-person voting in two of the year’s most closely watched elections: The New York City mayor’s race and the contest to pick New Jersey’s next governor.
A local candidate in the suburbs of New York City will remain on the November ballot, despite vanishing months ago after a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean.
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died.
New York City’s mayor has thrown his support behind a proposal to end the horse-drawn carriages that have been fixtures in Central Park for more than 150 years, citing safety concerns.
A proposed Caesars Palace casino in Times Square that’s backed by Jay-Z has lost its bid for a lucrative New York City-area gambling license amid fierce opposition from the Broadway theater industry.
People across the country are taking part in a national day of service marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
The case against Long Island’s suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has emerged as a potentially precedent-setting battleground in the use of advanced DNA techniques in criminal cases.
Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos has reported to a federal prison in New Jersey to begin serving a seven-year sentence for the fraud charges that got him ousted from Congress.
The leader of an MS-13 gang clique in New York City's suburbs has been sentenced to 68 years in prison in a federal case involving eight Long Island murders, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls.
Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire 100,000-bird flock in January.
Lawyers for two crypto investors charged with kidnapping a man for his Bitcoin say they have evidence showing the accuser “laughing and smiling” and moving about Manhattan freely during the days he claimed he was kept captive and tortured in a posh SoHo town house.
The daughter of Rex Heuermann, the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer, told a new documentary she believes her father “most likely” responsible.
President Donald Trump’s top education official says her department has determined that New York is discriminating against a school district that is refusing a state order to get rid of its Native American chief mascot.
A former model testifying in Harvey Weinstein’s retrial on sexual assault charges has been questioned about a private journal she wrote a decade ago.
A slab of Brooklyn wall that the artist Banksy emblazoned with a bandaged, heart-shaped balloon is emerging after more than a decade in storage.
A New York City suburb has become the latest flashpoint in the enduring debate over the place of Indigenous imagery in American sports.
A woman and her child whose remains were among other bodies discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from Long Island’s Gilgo Beach were identified by police Wednesday, nearly three decades after the double homicide.
President Donald Trump’s border czar joined New York City’s mayor on Tuesday to tout new federal charges against 27 people accused of being Tren de Aragua gang members and associates.
George Santos is defending his recent social media tirade to a federal judge who will sentencing the disgraced former congressman later this week on fraud charges.
Federal prosecutors say disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos “remains unrepentant” as he faces years in federal prison for fraud and identity theft.
A helicopter crash that killed six in New York City has renewed concerns about the safety of the popular sightseeing excursions.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers say the former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is suffering from dementia and isn't competent to stand trial on federal sex trafficking charges in New York.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at the Rikers Island jail to work on gang and drug-related criminal investigations.
A New York court has awarded $1.6 billion to more than 100 women who say they were sexually abused by a former pediatrician on Long Island.
Prosecutors are seeking more than seven years in prison for disgraced former congressman George Santos after he pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges.
Researchers at Columbia University remain in limbo after the Ivy League institution bowed to the Trump administration’s demands for unprecedented changes in a bid to restore some $400 million in federal funds cut.
A New York art adviser who once counted actor Leonardo DiCaprio among her wealthy patrons has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after admitting to cheating clients out of $6.5 million in connection with the sale of 55 works of art.
A Mexican drug lord who was one of U.S. authorities’ most wanted men has been brought into a New York courtroom to answer charges that include orchestrating the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is suing NBC Universal over a documentary that he says falsely accuses him of being a serial murderer who had sex with underage girls as he awaits trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
Two owners of a New York City pawnshop that was raided by the FBI in connection with an investigation into a burglary at the home of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow have been denied bail.
A New York region once synonymous in the culinary world for duck may lose its last commercial farm.
A federal court in New York has sentenced Mozambique’s former finance minister to another two-and-a-half years behind bars for his role in the “tuna bond” corruption scandal that triggered a financial crisis in the African nation.
The top uniformed police officer in the New York Police Department has resigned amid allegations he demanded sex from a subordinate.
The rapper Jay-Z says that a rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt.
The father of the victim in the fatal New York City subway chokehold case has sued defendant Daniel Penny as a Manhattan jury continues deliberating.